Trish Payne is a business executive, strategist, entrepreneur, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience driving growth across insurance, financial services, and employee benefits. As Vice President at Atlanta Life Insurance Company, she helps shape business development strategy, market expansion, strategic direction, and go-to-market execution while advancing the legacy of one of the nation’s most historic Black-owned insurance institutions.
Throughout her career, Trish has led strategies spanning market development, sales leadership, distribution, strategic partnerships, client engagement, and organizational positioning. She has managed significant client portfolios and developed go-to-market plans for group life, disability, voluntary benefits, and workforce solutions.
At Atlanta Life, Trish helped launch the Health & Productivity practice and supports the development and commercialization of LiveBalanced, a strategy connecting mental health, physical wellbeing, financial confidence, workplace culture, productivity, and organizational performance.
As a speaker and facilitator, Trish focuses on leadership, business growth, wellbeing, financial confidence, entrepreneurship, women, and legacy. She combines practical business insight and leadership experience to encourage audiences to think beyond what they accomplish to what they build, who they impact, and what they leave behind.